Improvement in bird-cage feed-cup holders



V bent to form hooks a.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ANDREW B. HENDRYX, AN SONIA, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR 'TO ANDREW V B. HENDRYXSI; CO., OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT lN BIRD-CAGE FEED-CUP HOLDERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 198,846, dated January 1, 1878; application filed December 19, 1877.

To all whom it mag concern:

Be it known that I, ANDREW B. HENDRYX, of Ansonia, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement in Bird-Cage Feed-Cup Holders i and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings ing feed-cups to bird-cages, the object beingto make the cup detachable, or so that it may be applied at any convenient or desirable point on the cage; and it consists in a yoke to surround the cup beneath the supportingshoulders, with hooked uprights extending therefrom to engage the horizontal bars of the cage at any desirable point.

The holder is made preferablyfrom one piece of wire, out the required length, its two ends The central portion, between the two ends, is bent into shape corresponding to the shape of the cup, and then turned at right angles, forming a yoke, b, and

the ends forming parallel uprights c, termi-. nating in the hooks a. The two uprights are preferably connected, as at d, which serves to strengthen the holder.

The hooked ends are applied to either of the The herein-described feed-cup holder for bird-cages, consisting of the horizontal yoke and hooked uprights, substantially as described.

ANDREW B. HENDRYX.

Witnesses:

HARRY E. HENDRYX, E. L. BABBITT. 

